“If you mess with that word order in the slightest you’ll sound like a maniac”,
he warns in the extract. “It’s an odd thing that every English speaker uses
that list, but almost none of us could write it out. And as size comes before
color, green great dragons can’t exist.”

For example, “a lovely, thick, black coat” will sound much more natural to a
native speaker than “a black, thick, lovely coat”.

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